Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/g…

…it/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (140 commits)
  ACPI: processor: use .notify method instead of installing handler directly
  ACPI: button: use .notify method instead of installing handler directly
  ACPI: support acpi_device_ops .notify methods
  toshiba-acpi: remove MAINTAINERS entry
  ACPI: battery: asynchronous init
  acer-wmi: Update copyright notice & documentation
  acer-wmi: Cleanup the failure cleanup handling
  acer-wmi: Blacklist Acer Aspire One
  video: build fix
  thinkpad-acpi: rework brightness support
  thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for the fan subdriver
  thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for the hotkey subdriver
  thinkpad-acpi: enhanced debugging messages for rfkill subdrivers
  thinkpad-acpi: restrict access to some firmware LEDs
  thinkpad-acpi: remove HKEY disable functionality
  thinkpad-acpi: add new debug helpers and warn of deprecated atts
  thinkpad-acpi: add missing log levels
  thinkpad-acpi: cleanup debug helpers
  thinkpad-acpi: documentation cleanup
  thinkpad-acpi: drop ibm-acpi alias
  ...

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt

@@ -260,6 +260,22 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 			to assume that this machine's pmtimer latches its value
 			and always returns good values.
 
+	acpi_enforce_resources=	[ACPI]
+			{ strict | lax | no }
+			Check for resource conflicts between native drivers
+			and ACPI OperationRegions (SystemIO and SystemMemory
+			only). IO ports and memory declared in ACPI might be
+			used by the ACPI subsystem in arbitrary AML code and
+			can interfere with legacy drivers.
+			strict (default): access to resources claimed by ACPI
+			is denied; legacy drivers trying to access reserved
+			resources will fail to bind to device using them.
+			lax: access to resources claimed by ACPI is allowed;
+			legacy drivers trying to access reserved resources
+			will bind successfully but a warning message is logged.
+			no: ACPI OperationRegions are not marked as reserved,
+			no further checks are performed.
+
 	agp=		[AGP]
 			{ off | try_unsupported }
 			off: disable AGP support

Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Acer Laptop WMI Extras Driver
 http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi
-Version 0.2
-18th August 2008
+Version 0.3
+4th April 2009
 
-Copyright 2007-2008 Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
+Copyright 2007-2009 Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
 
 acer-wmi is a driver to allow you to control various parts of your Acer laptop
 hardware under Linux which are exposed via ACPI-WMI.
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ not possible in kernel space from a 64 bit OS.
 Supported Hardware
 ******************
 
+NOTE: The Acer Aspire One is not supported hardware. It cannot work with
+acer-wmi until Acer fix their ACPI-WMI implementation on them, so has been
+blacklisted until that happens.
+
 Please see the website for the current list of known working hardare:
 
 http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware